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Nir (name)
Nir is a male given name of Hebrew origin which means "plowed field". It is also used as a Hebraized surname. Examples of people with that name: Given name * Nir Abergel (born 1990), Israeli footballer * Nir Alon (born 1964), Israeli sculptor and an installation artist * Nir Baram (born 1976), Israeli author * Nir Barkat (born 1959), Israeli businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and politician * Nir Barzilai, biologist * Nir Berkovic (born 1982), former Israeli footballer * Nir Bitton (born 1991), Israeli professional footballer * Nir Cohen (born 1981), Israeli retired basketball player * Nir Davidovich (born 1976), former Israeli goalkeeper * Nir Felder (born 1982), American jazz guitarist, composer, and songwriter * Nir Friedman (born 1967), Israeli professor * Nir Hod (born 1970), Israeli artist based in New York * Nir Jacob Kaplan (born 1989), Israeli actor, entertainer, and a radio presenter * Nir Kabaretti (born 1968), Israeli orchestra conductor * Nir Klinger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebrew Language
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved throughout history as the main liturgical language of Judaism (since the Second Temple period) and Samaritanism. Hebrew is the only Canaanite language still spoken today, and serves as the only truly successful example of a dead language that has been revived. It is also one of only two Northwest Semitic languages still in use, with the other being Aramaic. The earliest examples of written Paleo-Hebrew date back to the 10th century BCE. Nearly all of the Hebrew Bible is written in Biblical Hebrew, with much of its present form in the dialect that scholars believe flourished around the 6th century BCE, during the time of the Babylonian captivity. For this reason, Hebrew has been referred to by Jews as '' Lashon Hakodesh'' (, ) since an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir Lax
Nir Lax ( he, ניר לקס; born August 10, 1994) is an Israeli footballer who plays for Hapoel Nof HaGalil, in the Liga Leumit. Honours ; Hapoel Tel Aviv *Israel State Cup The Israel State Cup ( he, גביע המדינה, ''Gvia HaMedina''), is a knockout cup competition in Israeli football, run by the Israel Football Association (IFA). The State Cup was first held in 1928 as the People's Cup. Because it involve ...: 2011–12 * Liga Leumit: 2017–18 Notes External links * 1994 births Living people Israeli footballers Men's association football midfielders Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. players Beitar Tel Aviv Bat Yam F.C. players Bnei Sakhnin F.C. players FC Petrolul Ploiești players Hapoel Nof HaGalil F.C. players Israeli Premier League players Liga Leumit players Liga II players Israeli expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Romania Israeli expatriate sportspeople in Romania Footballers from Rishon LeZion {{Israel-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir Welgreen
Nir Welgreen (born 17 December 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Israel. Biography Born in 1976, Welgreen began competing in satellite tournaments in the 1992 season. His best performances on the ATP Tour were second round appearances at both Long Island in 1996 and Tashkent in 1997. At Tashkent he also made the semi-finals of the doubles in 1998, Vadim Kutsenko. During his career he took part in several grand slam qualifying draws, including the 1999 Wimbledon Championships The 1999 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. It was the 113th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held fro .... He won three ITF singles titles, two in Turkey and one in Ireland. In doubles he had a top 200 ranking and claimed two Challenger titles. Challenger titles Doubles: (2) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Welgreen, Nir 1976 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir Tibor
Nir Tibor ( he, ניר טיבור; born 18 June 1993), known professionally by his stage name Dennis Lloyd, is an Israeli musician, producer, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his 2016 hit single "Nevermind", which charted in several countries. Early life and education Nir Tibor was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to an Ashkenazi family. He grew up largely in Ramat Gan. Lloyd learned how to play the trumpet at age 8 and taught himself to play the guitar at 13. He attended the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts in Givatayim. At 18, he was conscripted into the Israeli Navy and served as a combat sailor for three years. Career Lloyd released his first single, "Playa (Say That)", in mid-2015. Toward the end of 2015, he moved to Bangkok, Thailand, where he stayed for a year. During his time in Bangkok, Lloyd focused exclusively on music and wrote 35 songs. After his year in Bangkok, Lloyd returned to Israel where he began releasing more music incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir Sivilia
Nir Avraham Sivilia ( he, ניר אברהם סביליה; born 26 May 1975) is a former Israeli footballer. Honours Maccabi Tel Aviv * Israeli Premier League: 1994-95 *Israel State Cup: 1993-94 *Toto Cup: 1992-93 Beitar Jerusalem * Israeli Premier League: 1996–97, 1997–98 *Toto Cup The Israel Toto Cup ( he, גביע הטוטו, ''Gvia Ha'Toto'') is an association football tournament that features clubs in the two highest divisions in Israel: the Israeli Premier League ( Ligat Ha'Al), and the second division Liga Leumit. Fro ...: 1997-98 Maccabi Haifa * Israeli Premier League: 2001–02 External linksNir Siviliaat OneNir Siviliaat Bnei Yehuda's official websiteNir Siviliaat Maccabi Haifa's official website * 1975 births Living people Israeli Jews Israeli footballers Israel men's international footballers Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. players Maccabi Haifa F.C. players Beitar Jerusalem F.C. players Hapoel Haifa F.C. players Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. players Footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir Shental
Nir Shental (also "Chantal"; ניר שנטל; born April 25, 1969) is an Israeli Olympic competitive sailor. Early life Shental was born in Jaffa, Israel, and he is Jewish. His brother is an Olympic competitive sailor Ran Shental. Sailing career His club is Hapoel Tel Aviv, in Tel Aviv, Israel. In 1987, Shental and his brother Ran won the gold medal in the 17th International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU) Youth Sailing World Championships in the 420 dinghy—Open in Botany Bay, NSW, Australia. They beat out future Olympians Jean-François Berthet and Gwenael Berthet of France. In August 1988, he won the silver medal in the 470 dinghy Junior World Championship in the 470 - Open, in Puck, Poland. In 1993, Shental and his brother won the silver medal in the 470 World Championships. In 1995, he and his brother won the bronze medal in the 470 World Championships in the 470-Men, in Toronto, Canada. That year, they were named Israel's Sportsmen of the Year in a ceremony conducted b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir Shaviv
Nir Joseph Shaviv ( he, ניר יוסף שביב, born July 6, 1972) is an Israeli‐American physics professor. He is professor at the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known for his solar and cosmic-ray hypothesis of climate change which disagrees with the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change. In 2002, Shaviv hypothesised that passages through the Milky Way's spiral arms appear to have been the cause behind the major ice-ages over the past billion years. In his later work, co-authored by Jan Veizer, a low upper limit was placed on the climatic effect of . His best known contribution to the field of astrophysics was to demonstrate that the Eddington luminosity is not a strict limit, namely, that astrophysical objects can be brighter than the Eddington luminosity without blowing themselves apart. This is achieved through the development of a porous atmosphere that allows the radiation to escape while exerting little force on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir Shavit
Nir Shavit ( he, ניר שביט) is an Israeli computer scientist. He is a professor in the Computer Science Department at Tel Aviv University and a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nir Shavit received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1986, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990. Shavit is a co-author of the book ''The Art of Multiprocessor Programming'', is a winner of the 2004 Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science for his work on applying tools from algebraic topology to model shared memory computability, and a winner of the 2012 Dijkstra Prize for the introduction and first implementation of software transactional memory. He is a past program chair of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) and the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir Seroussi
Nir Seroussi is a music executive, producer and songwriter. He is currently Executive Vice President at Interscope Geffen A&M Records. He was previously the President of Sony Music U.S. Latin. Early life and education Born in Israel, Nir Seroussi moved to the United States to attend to Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1993 where he majored in Music Business/Management and graduated summa cum laude. Career Seroussi began his career in music publishing in 1998 at Insignia Music (founded by K.C. Porter ). As General Manager, he headed the company's joint ventures with Universal Music Publishing Group and Famous Music. Seroussi left Insignia Music in 2000 to pursue songwriting full-time. In 2002, he joined EMI Latin as Vice President of Marketing and A&R. He worked as a songwriter, A&R, and marketing executive for Regional Mexican artists Intocable and A.B. Quintanilla III, brother of the late singer Selena. In 2004, he was named Vice President of Marketing and A&R at Sony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir Rosen
Nir Rosen (born May 17, 1977 in New York City) is an American journalist and chronicler of the Iraq War, who resides in Lebanon. Rosen writes on current and international affairs. In 2014 he was a special adviser for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, a conflict resolution NGO.Thomas Pierret, 23 December 2014pulse media/ref> Journalistic and academic work Nir Rosen was born in New York City and attended the High School of Music And Art. Rosen is known for his writings on the rise of violence in Iraq following the 2003 invasion, which form the basis of his first book, '' In the Belly of the Green Bird'' (2006). He spent eight years in Iraq reporting on the Coalition occupation, the relationship between Americans and Iraqis, the development of postwar Iraqi religious and political movements, inter-ethnic and sectarian relations, and the Iraqi civil war. He has regularly contributed to leading periodicals, such as '' Atlantic Monthly'', ''The Washington Post'', the '' New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir Poraz
Nir Poraz (14 May 1971 – 14 October 1994) (Hebrew: ניר פורז) was an Israeli Defence Forces Captain who was killed in action by Hamas during the failed October 14, 1994 rescue mission for IDF soldier Nachshon Wachsman in Bir Nabbalah. The rescue operation was authorized by then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Poraz was killed by close range automatic fire from a distance of three yards. He was 23 years old. Author Ami Pedahzur writes in his book ''The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism'' that in addition to the deaths of Wachsman and Poraz "ten officers and enlisted men had been wounded." Three Hamas gunmen were also killed. Poraz, along with Capt. Lior Lotan, was one of the mission commanders of the Sayeret Matkal team which had been assigned the task to rescue Wachsman. Poraz and Wachsman had never met. Many similarities have been drawn between Israel's different response to the kidnapping of Wachsman and to the 2006 kidnapping of Cpl. Gila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir Nakav
Nir Nakav ( he, ניר נקב) is an Israeli drummer. He is the head of the drums department in Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in Israel. Since 1998 he is the drummer of the extreme metal band Salem. Nakav is a graduate of Musicians Institute (MI) college in Hollywood, California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori .... Nakav authored an educational textbook for drummers, titled "Battle Hymns". References External links Nir Nakav's HomepageSalem band Homepage"Foreplay""Gevald Brothers" {{DEFAULTSORT:Nakav, Nir Living people Heavy metal drummers Rock drummers 1972 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
